The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (TRIH ep 528, part 1)
1938 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Munich crisis and the lead-up to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1938. They set out Hitler’s strategic and ideological motivations — revenge after 1918, racial struggle, economic pressures, and urgency driven by rearmament — and explain how his propaganda, his Sudeten German allies led by Konrad Henlein, and hardline advisers like Joachim von Ribbentrop…
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- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)